College of Education Bookshelf

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  Mathematics in the K-8 Classroom and Library

  2010

  Sueanne McKinney and KaaVonia Hinton

  Two experts on education offer a rich and diverse selection of children's literature and teaching strategies for the K-8 mathematics classroom.

  
  
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  Research in Technology Education

  2010

  Philip A. Reed (Editor) and James E. LaPorte (Editor)

  Due to the laboratory-based nature of technology and engineering education programs, professionals in our field have often focused on the resources in our classrooms and laboratories and the instructional methodologies used to address specific concepts. Formal research into content and practice has often given way to “what seems right”. New curriculum is constantly being introduced (based on what is occurring in business and industry), yet the inclusion for those evolving concepts in courses and programs is typically not verified.

  Hence, the importance of the 2010 CTTE yearbook and its focus on the dire need for an aggressive research agenda in your field. This publication is designed to help direct the professional efforts of researchers, classroom educators, administrators, and curriculum specialists. Each chapter draws attention to a different aspect of investigative thought and action.

  
  
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  Becoming a Group Leader

  2009

  Nina W. Brown

  With an emphasis on developing the group leader’s self-acceptance and self-understanding as a critical component of leading successful group counseling sessions, Becoming a Group Leader provides a well-organized and clear conceptual roadmap that guides students through the art and science of group leadership. As the text progresses, students learn how to think critically about their tasks and responsibilities as a group leader; develop clinical judgment; explore their own personal development; learn the stages of group development; and identify practical strategies and constructive uses of group dynamics…. [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Diabetes? No Problema!: The Latino's Guide to Living Well with Diabetes

  2009

  Sheri R. Colberg and Leonel Villa-Caballero

  An indispensable addition to the diabetes self-care shelf, Diabetes? No Problema is written expressly for the millions of Latinos who have or are at risk for diabetes and its complications. Leading diabetes authorities Drs. Colberg and Villa-Caballero present everything Latinos need to know to understand and manage their condition.Topics include dietary modifications to help control diabetes, common traps and pitfalls, and everyday tips to effectively manage the disease. With inspirational stories of diabetic Latinos who have successfully conquered their condition, Diabetes? No Problema is the most accessible, essential guide for every Latino with, or at risk for, diabetes. [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Sharon M. Draper: Embracing Literacy

  2009

  KaaVonia Hinton

  In Sharon M. Draper: Embracing Literacy, author KaaVonia Hinton reveals how Draper became an exceptional teacher and writer, and how she uses her writing to urge young people to embrace literacy. Hinton also explores how Draper has made a lasting contribution to the field of young adult literature. This book-length study examines both her life and work and will benefit all students, teachers, and scholars in the field of young adult literature… [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Early Childhood Special Education - 0 to 8 Years: Strategies for Positive Outcomes

  2009

  Sharon A. Raver

  Featuring the application of evidence-based strategies, ecological and family-based approaches, effective learning, and the use of responsive cultural/linguistic practices, Early Childhood Education (0-8 Years): Strategies for Positive Outcomes, prepares students for all the professional knowledge and skill competencies they need to promote optimal development in infant and toddlers (0-3), preschoolers (3-5), and primary-aged (6-8) children with special needs. Using real-life case studies to illustrate recommended practices, the book clearly presents disability characteristics, assessment practices, and easy-to-implement interventions for inclusive and special education settings, while giving students all the resources they need to master and apply the material… {From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Books About the Middle East: Selecting and Using Them with Children and Adolescents

  2008

  Tami Al-Hazza and Katherine Toth Bucher

  Learn all about Middle Eastern culture and how to use that literature in K-12 schools to promote understanding. Chapters provide background information about the countries and peoples of the place, literature related to the region and to the major ethnic groups of the region, guidelines for selecting children's and young adult literature about the region, and strategies for incorporation. This new resource includes an annotated bibliography of children's and young adult books with evaluations, reading/interest level, review sources, awards/prizes, and Accelerated Reader/Reading Counts availability. [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Field Hockey: Steps to Success

  2008

  Elizabeth Anders and Susan Myers

  Enter the game with confidence, knowing you've mastered the essentials. Field Hockey: Steps to Success combines a comprehensive, progressive approach with in-depth instruction, illustrations, and 86 drills. Whether you are new to the sport or seeking new techniques to add to your arsenal, Field Hockey: Steps to Success—part of the popular Steps to Success Series that has sold more than 1.5 million copies—will help you improve every aspect of your game. [From the Publisher]

  
  
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  Children of the Self-Absorbed: A Grown-Up's Guide to Getting Over Narcissistic Parents

  2008

  Nina W. Brown

  Children of the Self-Absorbed offers clear definitions of narcissism and narcissistic personality disorder to help you identify the extent of your parent's problem. You'll learn the different types of destructive narcissism and how to recognize their effects on relationships. With the aid of proven techniques, you'll discover that you're not helpless against your parent's behavior and that you needn't consider giving up on the relationship. Instead, realistic strategies and steps are suggested for learning to set mutually agreed upon behaviors that can help you fulfill your needs and expectations. [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Dead-End Lovers: How to Avoid Them and Find True Intimacy

  2008

  Nina W. Brown

  Establishing and maintaining a meaningful, satisfying, and enduring intimate relationship can be elusive for many people. Time and again, they are drawn to lovers with whom the relationship is futile, ending with hurt feelings and regrets. In this work, Nina Brown shares her longtime experience as a professional counselor to help those who ask: Why do I keep picking unsuitable lovers? Brown calls them dead-end lovers, and in this work she shows us, not only how to spot them early and avoid them, but also what it is―what psychological needs we have ―that attracts us to them…. [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Teaching Multicultural Literature to Help Children Understand Ethnic Diversity: Essays and Experiences

  2008

  Gail Singleton Taylor (Editor), KaaVonia Hinton (Editor), and Lisa Moore (Editor)

  Addresses the challenges of multicultural teaching by presenting instructional strategies.

  
  
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  50 Secrets of the Longest Living People with Diabetes

  2007

  Sheri R. Colberg and Steven V. Edelman

  The latest scientific research confirms that you can live well and long with diabetes without suffering from its more devastating health complications. Whether you have type 1 or type 2 diabetes, you have the ability to improve the quality and length of your life through physical activity, a positive mental outlook, and certain diabetes tools and medications. Now, the longest living people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes share the secrets that have helped them achieve longevity and wellness… [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Quintessence of Classical Japanese Martial Arts: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives

  2007

  Hiroyuki Tesshin Hamada

  Describes classical Japanese martial arts and provides historical and philosophical perspectives pertaining to various martial arts including Kendo, Judo and Jiujutsu.

  
  
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  Integrating Multicultural Literature in Libraries and Classrooms in Secondary Schools

  2007

  KaaVonia Hinton and Gail K. Dickinson

  Reach students across all cultures with multicultural literature! Help all students learn to read, comprehend, and gain information literacy skills through multicultural literature. Use this book to provide hands-on instruction to help students connect, learn, and achieve Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP)! Sample standards-based, integrated lesson plans and curriculum units show teachers how to really integrate multicultural materials in their lessons to help all students achieve. This is an excellent resource for teachers and librarians who teach and motivate English Language Learners (ELL) and students from all cultures. [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Exercise Prescription: A Case Study Approach to the ACSM Guidelines

  2007

  David P. Swain and Brian C. Leutholtz

  You will find no better preparation source for the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) certification than the new, second edition of Exercise Prescription: A Case Study Approach to the ACSM Guidelines. Authors David Swain and Brian Leutholtz present a series of case studies to help you translate the ACSM guidelines for exercise prescription into practical knowledge. [From the Publisher]

  
  
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  Coping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People: The Destructive Narcissistic Pattern

  2006

  Nina W. Brown

  For all of us forced to deal with an infuriating, mean, critical person, seasoned counselor Nina Brown has a word of warning. You must accept that your usual coping strategies are not effective, and will not be effective, with this person, she advises. You cannot expect them to react and behave as adults. So what's a victim to do? Start with the suggestions in this book.

  In Coping with Infuriating, Mean, Critical People, Brown explains why many people, who may not display all of the characteristics necessary for a formal, full-blown narcissist diagnosis, still display what she calls a destructive narcissistic pattern that results in much the same anguish for those with whom the individual interacts. Thankfully, she also provides specific methods that will help victims of this behavior deal with the narcissistic colleague, supervisor or boss, parent, or intimate other. [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Angela Johnson: Poetic Prose

  2006

  KaaVonia Hinton

  Angela Johnson's career as an award-winning young adult novelist almost did not happen. Like so many would-be writers, she had decided to pursue a more financially stable career: teaching. But in the end, Johnson abandoned the familiar and seemingly more secure and became an author. Her first picture book, Tell Me a Story, Mama, conveyed Johnson's talent as a writer and left readers hoping that more books were forthcoming. And come they did. Her picture books were concise, poetic, and memorable. But some wondered, could she write compelling YA literature? Her first book for adolescents, Toning the Sweep, proved that indeed she could. Sparse, poetic language similar to that found in her picture books made its way into her YA novels, and it caused quite a stir amongst critics. [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Skills and Tools for Today's Counselors and Psychotherapists: From Natural Helping to Professional Counseling

  2006

  Edward S. Neukrug and Alan M. Schwitzer

  Learn essential skills; understand the nature of helping; learn about change strategies, diagnosis, and treatment planning; explore ethical, professional, and cross-cultural issues; and apply your new skills to the helping relationship ... After reading about the fundamental skills and techniques of counseling in the text, you can access complementary role plays, skill demonstrations, and process stages ... to see the same essential principles in action. [From the back cover]

  
  
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  At-Risk Population: Sociolinguistic and Educational Issues

  2006

  Smita Sinha and Abha Gupta

  Populations world over which are at risk have no voices of their own and they share a similar fate irrespective of the caste creed or national boundaries. The effort of this book is to bring such people and their plight into focus with the help of a variety of contributors. The purpose of the edited book At Risk Population Sociolinguistic and Educational Issues is two fold first to build educators knowledge of the wide range of issues characterizing the at risk and disadvantaged population in various parts of the world second to bring awareness of the existing social structures amongst different nations from a socio-constructive viewpoint.

  
  
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  The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan: Living Well and Being Fit with Diabetes, No Matter Your Weight

  2005

  Sheri R. Colberg

  Most of the 18.2 million Americans currently living with diabetes have been advised by their doctors, or other health-care providers, that weight loss is essential for them to control their condition and stay healthy. However, the vast majority of people fail miserably at dieting, ultimately regaining the pounds they manage to lose. The latest research confirms, though, that diabetic people do not have to lose significant amounts of body fat to be healthy. The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan guides people step-by-step to achieve a healthy body despite having excess body fat and diabetes or pre-diabetes -- primarily by becoming physically fit. With practical information and tips on physical fitness, blood sugar balance with physical activity, nutrition, nutritional supplements, emotional fitness, diabetic medications, motivation, and more, The 7 Step Diabetes Fitness Plan gives readers the knowledge they need to prevent, reverse, and control their diabetes through fitness -- and to live a long, healthy life without the need for dieting and weight loss -- making this the essential diabetes fitness resource. [Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Diabetes-Free Kids: A Take-Charge Plan for Preventing and Treating Type-2 Diabetes in Children

  2005

  Sheri R. Colberg and Mary Friesz

  Diabetes-Free Kids is the first book to address the burgeoning epidemic of type 2 diabetes among children and to provide parents with an action plan for halting it. Exercise physiologist Sheri Colberg and nutritionist Mary Friesz lay out a clear plan for diet and exercise that will get even the pickiest eaters to enjoy healthier yet satisfying meals and snacks, and will motivate the most sedentary children to start moving. [Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Empowerment of Women: Language and Other Facets

  2005

  Abha Gupta and Smita Sinha

  This book is a pioneering attempt to provide a comprehensive compilation of articles by eminent scholars on the issue of women's empowerment in Asia. Segmented into five parts - Language, Media and Empowerment; Socio-political-culture Empowerment; Economic, Profession and legal Empowerment; Domestic Empowerment and Empowerment and Education - the sole objective of this book is to present various dimensions and facets of empowerment along with role of language, education, Media, literature, science and technology, and women's health.

  
  
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  Contemporary School Counseling: Theory, Research, and Practice

  2005

  Christopher A. Sink (Editor)

  This text reviews the principle roles and functions of a contemporary school counselor, including counseling, coordination, collaboration, and guidance--as defined by the American School Counselor Association. Editor Christopher A. Sink introduces the subject in the first chapter, and each subsequent chapter is written by a specialist in the field. [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Coping With Your Partner's Jealousy

  2004

  Nina W. Brown

  Statisticians report that as many as two of every three married couples have at least one incident of spousal battery in their history; the number one motivation for these attacks is the jealousy of one partner. Whether motivated by a desire for power, attention, control, or affection, feelings of jealousy often lead to moments of emotional or physical violence that can cripple and destroy a relationship.

  In this, the first book ever written specifically to partners of jealous people, a professional counselor offers a series of assessments designed to help you reflect on personality traits that contribute to jealousy, both in yourself and in your partner. The book contains exercises and strategies that will help those involved in repairable relationships identify the triggers that provoke jealous reactions in their partners. Techniques for effective boundary-setting, enhanced communication, and deepened intimacy give you the tools you need to work through periods of jealous reaction. [From Amazon.com]

  
  
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  Loving the Self-Absorbed: How to Create a More Satisfying Relationship with a Narcissistic Partner

  2003

  Nina W. Brown

  A narcissistic partner is forever putting his or her own needs first and is also demeaning, manipulative, controlling, and competitive. After the early stages of a relationship, the non-narcissist is usually left questioning her value. In this first book for the intimate partners of narcissists, find empowering strategies you can use to limit the destructive effect of your partner's behavior and get what you need out of your relationship.

  Learn the five types of destructive narcissism and how to recognize their effects on your relationship. The book reassures you that you are not helpless, and that you needn't give up on your relationship. Instead, the book offers realistic tips on living so that both of your needs are met. Change your "fantasy" wishes into realistic expectations, create boundaries, listen and respond in a self-caring manner, and learn when to avoid and ignore especially bad behavior. The book teaches you how to stop feeding into a narcissist's self-focus with subtle behavior cues such as acting distracted when he or she vies for attention. Ultimately, you will achieve a degree of understanding and separation that will help you see both your partner and yourself in a new light. [Amazon.com]